Robot Boston Dynamics Spot He has already amazed us with his amazing agility, but now he can also be a good guide.
Committed to exploring how generative AI tools such as a chatbot can be used. ChatGPT OpenAI with its robot dog, the company’s smart engineers recently decided to create a tourist guide using this technology.
The video (above) demonstrating these efforts shows some very impressive results. Wearing a hat, plastic eyes and false eyebrows, opening and closing his robotic gripper as he “talks”, Spot takes us on an entertaining tour of parts of the Boston Dynamics facility in Massachusetts.
“We were interested in seeing how technologies like this could be used in robotics,” Matt Klingensmith, principal software engineer at Boston Dynamics, says in the video.
As part of the preparation, the team gave Spot a short script with the name of each room he was going to visit, as well as a one-sentence explanation of the room’s purpose. Spot then combines this data with images from its built-in cameras and then runs it through what it calls a “visual question answering model” to try to learn more about what it’s looking at and offer a more detailed verbal response.
The best part is how Spot behaves when he is told to take on different personalities. Watch, for example, the British butler’s tutorial at the beginning of the video and the sarcastic tutorial a few minutes later. The Shakespearean actor is also very impressive.
“He came up with these crazy personalities,” Klingensmith says. “He incorporated his backstory into what he saw, he reinterpreted what he saw. “That was incredible”.
The software engineer said he was also surprised by some of the responses. For example, when he asked Spot to show him his parents, the robot took him to an early version of Spot at the Boston Dynamics robot show.
Klingensmith says AI could allow robots to “not just follow our commands, but in some sense understand the actions they might take in the context of the world around them,” adding that this could be useful for applications that we “still” don’t represented.”
Human guides shouldn’t worry just yet, however, as Klingensmith said AI chatbots still tend to make things up (known as “hallucinations”), which is definitely something you don’t want to happen inside such a place. like a museum. .
Source: Digital Trends
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